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Koziatek, Zuzanna Ewelina. " Formal Affective Strategies in Contemporary African Diasporic Feminist Texts ." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1621007445234777.

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Spriggs, Bianca L. "Women of the Apocalypse: Afrospeculative Feminist Novelists." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/56.

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“Women of the Apocalypse: Feminist Afrospeculative Writers,” seeks to address the problematic ‘Exodus narrative,’ a convention that has helped shape Black American liberation politics dating back to the writings of Phyllis Wheatley. Novels by Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia Butler, and Alice Walker undermine and complicate this narrative by challenging the trope of a single charismatic male leader who leads an entire race to a utopic promised land. For these writers, the Exodus narrative is unsustainable for a number of reasons, not the least of which is because there is no room for women to opera

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Mekgwe, Pinkie Tlotlego. "Femmeninism : a stutter or a starter? gender constructions and male feminist politics in African literature." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249108.

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Gress, Priti Chitnis. "Tar Baby and the Black Feminist Literary Tradition." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626111.

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Sougou, Omar. "A critical study of Buchi Emecheta's fiction 1972-1989." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318909.

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This thesis proposes to study comprehensively the contribution of Buchi Emecheta to African literature and to the debate over feminism and African and black women. Chapters one and two are a background to the investigation of Emecheta's fiction. They examine the work of selected African female and male novelists in order to assess the representation of he African woman in the novel and her role and place in a changing society. The writings of women are considered in relation to women's priorities and the orientation of the African novel itself. The notion of protest as a rhetorical device is c

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Mtuze, Peter Tshobiso. "A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23636.

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The study examines, from a feminist point of view, the stereotypic image of woman in Xhosa prose fiction from pre-literate times to the era of written literature (1909 - 1980). Attaching feminist critical theory to conventional literary characterisation gives this pioneering study a human dime,n sion that is bound to rejuvenate traditional critical appredation and highlight the tremendous power of art to reflect or parallel real-life experiences. Consequently, the study transcends the confines of traditional literary criticism. It throws interdisciplinary light on the African feminist dilemma

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Hinton-Johnson, KaaVonia Mechelle. "Expanding the power of literature African American literary theory & young adult literature /." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054833658.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 175 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Caroline Clark, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-175).

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Jones, Claire. "An Intersectional Feminist Perspective of Emmett Till in Young Adult Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3413.

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Emmett Till’s murder inspired many novelists, poets, and artists. Recently, Till has inspired several feminist young adult novelists who are introducing his case in an intersectional way to a new generation of readers. The works that I have studied are A Wreath for Emmett Till (2003) by Marilyn Nelson, The Hunger Games Trilogy (2008-2010) by Suzanne Collins, and Midnight without a Moon (2017) by Linda Jackson. By examining how the authors employ a feminist perspective, readers can understand how they are striving for a more inclusive, intersectional feminist movement. This is significant becau

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Capelli, Amanda M. "The (Un)Balanced Canon| Re-Visioning Feminist Conceptions of Madness and Transgression." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10686919.

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<p> By re-positioning the works of Elaine Showalter, Phyllis Chesler, Sandra Gilbert, and Susan Gubar alongside Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston, reading the literary texts through the feminist theories in order to expand them, this dissertation aims to contribute to an intersectional feminist practice that challenges claims of universality and continues to decolonize the female body and mind. Through an intersectional analysis of narratives written by women of color, applying and re-visioning theories of madness and transgression, this dissertation will present a coun

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Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline. "Gender, history and trauma in Zimbabwean and other African literatures." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/582336/.

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Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this research explores Zimbabwean literary and other cultural texts within the broader context of the construction of identities and the politics of inclusion and exclusion in nationalist and oppositional discourses. It also analyzes two texts by major non-Zimbabwean African writers to examine the thematic links between Zimbabwean and other African writing. Through combining historical, anthropological and political approaches with postcolonial, postmodern and feminist critical theories, the thesis explores the ways in which African writing and performance

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Kima, Raogo Strickland Ronald. "Feminist intersections reading Louise Erdrich and Buchi Emecheta within/across cultural boundaries /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1225115021&SrchMode=1&sid=5&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1177689713&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed on April 27, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Ronald L. Strickland (chair), Susan Kalter, Kristin Dykstra, Elizabeth K. Stone. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-221) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Starke, Nathalie. "The Faces of Oppression : In Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-25957.

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This essay examines the novels Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison with feminist and African Amerian theory. The focus is on opppression and I study the men's roles and functions, whether the male characters follow social structures, if patriarchy is something noticeable and how this affect the female characters.

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Compion, Marlette. "'n Ondersoek na Scheherazade as moontlike voorganger in 'n vroulike verteltradisie in enkele Afrikaanse literêre tekste /." Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/998.

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Rodriguez, Ivette. "Reimagining African Authenticity Through Adichie's Imitation Motif." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3351.

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In An Image of Africa, Chinua Achebe indicts Conrad’s Heart of Darkness for exemplifying the kind of purist rhetoric that has long benefited Western ontology while propagating reductive renderings of African experience. Edward Said refers to this dynamic as the way in which societies define themselves contextually against an imagined Other. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fiction exposes how, by occupying cultural dominance, Western, white male values are normalized as universal. Nevertheless, these values are de-naturalized by their inconsistencies in the lived experiences of Adichie’s black, Afri

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Manes, Caralynn. "I'm Every Woman: Audre Lorde's Creation of an Interior Community in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors151334487983631.

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Goremusandu, Tania. "Gender possibilities in the African context as explored by Mariama Ba's So long a letter, Neshani Andrea's The purple violet of Oshaantu and Sindiwe Magona's Beauty gift." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/6469.

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Gender oppression has been a significant discussion to the development of gender, cultural and feminist theories. The primary focus of this study is to investigate how patriarchal traditions, colonialism, and religious oppression force women to struggle under constrictions oppositional to empowerment. Thus, the project provides a comparative analysis of three texts from different African postcolonial societies by three African female writers: Mariama Bâ, Neshani Andreas and Sindiwe Magona. The author‟s biographies and historical context of their novels will be analyzed, as well as a summary of

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Fennell, Jarad Heath. "The Non-Identical Anglophone Bildungsroman: From the Categorical to the De-Centering Literary Subject in the Black Atlantic." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6500.

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My goal with this dissertation was to discover more about how the Bildungsroman genre in English or the coming-of-age story became a staple of post-colonial and ethnic minority writing. I grew up reading novels like these and feel a great deal of affection for them, and I wanted to understand how authors writing in these other traditions represented a broader response to colonialist Western culture. My method was to survey philosophical approaches to subjectivity and subject-formation, read a wide variety of texts I understood as engaging with the Bildung tradition, and examining how they repr

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Compion, Marlette. "'n Ondersoek na Scheherazade as moontlike voorganger in 'n vroulike verteltradisie in enkele Afrikaanse literêre tekste." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2024.

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Thesis (MA (Afrikaans and Dutch))—University of Stellenbosch, 2005.<br>The aim of this study is to investigate the position that has been allocated to women authors by literary theorists. Some literary theorists are of the opinion that the action of writing can be compared to fatherhood, ownership and being a creator, all of which are male dominated images. Women writers have historically been marginalized by literary theorists, since there is a perception that women cannot write because they are not male. Harold Bloom has postulated that a male writer looks to a precursor in order to write a

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Smith, Roslyn Nicole. "Medias Res, Temporal Double-Consciousness and Resistance in Octavia Butler's Kindred." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11242007-230409/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.<br>Title from file title page. Elizabeth West, committee chair; Layli Phillips, Kameelah Martin Samuel, committee members. Electronic text (52 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Jan. 30, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52).

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Holmlind, Ann-Louise. "The Adopted Daughter of Africa : A Close Reading of Joyce in Crossing the River from Postcolonial and Feminist Perspectives." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35935.

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Abstract The aim of this essay is to explain why Caryl Phillips presents Joyce as "the adopted daughter of Africa" at the end of Crossing the River (1993). This will be done by performing a close reading. This essay will focus on Joyce’s actions and behaviour. Aspects of feminism and postcolonial theory will act as the theoretic basis for the analysis. The analysis of Joyce’s character will be put in relation to the whole of Phillips’ “Black Atlantic” narrative and to gender and third wave feminist theories. The analysis will show that Joyce, by breaking racial norms, renouncing her faith, d

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Blanding, Cristen Celeste. "Interracial Romance Novels and the Resolution of Racial Difference." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131365873.

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Shaw, John Brendan. "Touching History to Find “a Kind of Truth”: Black Women’s Queer Desires in Post-Civil Rights Literature, Film, and Music." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468845503.

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McNeil, Nicene Rebecca. "Representations of Black Autonomy in Selected Works of Black Fiction." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1605789333021661.

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Holmes, Janel L. "The Color of Memory: Reimagining the Antebellum South in Works by James McBride Through the use of Free Indirect Discourse." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4220.

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This thesis examines the use of interior narrative techniques such as free indirect discourse and internal monologue in two of James McBride’s neo-slave narratives, Song Yet Sung (2008) and The Good Lord Bird (2013). Very limited critical attention has been given to these neo-slave narratives that illustrate McBrides attention to characterization and focalized narration. In these narratives McBride builds upon the revelations he explores in his bestselling memoir, The Color of Water (1996, 2006), where he learns to disassociate race and character. What he discovers about not only his mother, b

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Lawrence, Ariel D. "Black Lives Examined: Black Nonfiction and the Praxis of Survival in the Post-Civil Rights Era." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5450.

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The subject of my thesis project is black nonfiction, namely the essay, memoir, and autobiography, written by black authors about and during the Post-Civil Rights Era. The central goals of this work are to briefly investigate the role of genre analysis within the various subsets of nonfiction and also to exemplify the ways that black writers have taken key genre models and evolved them. Secondly, I aim to understand the historical, political, and cultural contributions of the Post-Civil Rights Era, which I mark as hitting its stride in 1968. It is not my desire to create a definitive historica

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Silva, Meyre Ivone Santana da. "Reinventando identidades: gênero, raça e nação na literatura de A.A.Aidoo." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13034.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Meyre Ivone Santana da Silva.pdf: 775031 bytes, checksum: 04d5c85cec4cddd73f9b9a531d3fdf26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-13<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>This paper intends to analyse the African female literary expression as a significant contribution to an alteration in the literary scenario of the Anglophone African countries. African female writers works contribute to the process of history rewriting and the reconstruction of female images in the African societies. Ama at

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Brum, Gabriela Eltz. "Sexual blinging of women : Alice Walker's african character tashi and issue of female genital cutting." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/4506.

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Este trabalho consiste em uma leitura das diferentes formas de representação que podem ser atribuídas à personagem Tashi, protagonista do romance Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), da escritora negra estadunidense Alice Walker. Antes desta obra, Tashi já havia aparecido em dois romances de Walker, primeiro em The Color Purple (1982), como personagem periférica, e depois como menção em The Temple of my Familiar (1989). Com Tashi, surge a temática da prática da circuncisão feminina, ritual ao qual a personagem se submete no início da idade adulta. O foco de observação do trabalho se volta para

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Adebayo, Adebanke. "West African Feminism| Maneuvering the Reality of Feminism Using Osun." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10682016.

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<p> West African Women writers are constantly looking for ways to maneuver the patriarchal system within their indigenous cultures. To say maneuvering implies the dilemma in consciously navigating patriarchal epistemology as West African women, which in reality is not exotic to other feminist struggles outside the continent. To deal with the dilemma of constantly maneuvering, this thesis suggest for an indigenous framework. It suggests <i>Osun </i>–a Nigerian goddess– as a response to the theoretical problems and as a methodology to navigating a postcolonial patriarchal worldview i

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Dye, Angel. "JOOK: RENT PARTY POEMS." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/93.

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Jook is a spirited collection of historical persona poems situated in the vibrant rent party scene of 1920s Harlem. The Harlem Renaissance of New York was a decade of black innovation, artistry, and cultural expansion spanning 1920-1930. During this post-Emancipation, Great Migration era, black families leaving the South moved north only to encounter new forms of oppression. They were fleeing the lynchings, racism, and segregation that they experienced back home. In Harlem, black families earned disproportionately lower wages and paid much higher rents for subpar housing conditions compared to

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Benavente, Gabriel. "Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3186.

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This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples. In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for

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Revelles, Benavente Beatriz. "Literature, Gender and Communication in the making: Understanding Toni Morrison's Work in the Information Society." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/306597.

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La present tesi doctoral examina una comunicació relacional com a objecte d'estudi per a la literatura. Aquesta comunicació es produeix entre autors i autores i lectors i lectores a través de les xarxes socials. Per a tals fins, utilitza una escriptora en particular, Toni Morrisson i una modalitat de xarxa social concreta, la seva pàgina oficial de Facebook. Utilitzant com a marc teòric el nou materialisme (Van der Tuin & Dolphijn, 2010) i una metodologia "difractiva" (Barad, 2007), aquesta tesi desenvolupa un concepte de comunicació literària basada en mecanismes que infereixen diferències su

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Abreu, Aline Guimarães Teixeira de. "Celebrando o gênero feminino através da maternidade em narrativas de escravos e posteriores à escravidão." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2006. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=130.

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Um estudo sobre a maternidade como um tema recorrente na Literatura Afro-Americana nos últimos três séculos e isso pode ser observado nas palavras de Harriet Jacobs e Maya Angelou. Em suas obras, respectivamente, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, as autoras posicionam o eu negro feminino no centro de suas experiências e revêem suas memórias passadas. Fazendo isso, elas narram histórias que transcendem as suas próprias e dão voz as mulheres duplamente marginalizadas cujos testemunhos foram excluídos da História oficial e do cânone literário por serem neg

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Cesario, Irineia Lina. "Ventos do Apocalipse, de Paulina Chiziane, e Ponciá Vicêncio, de Conceição Evaristo: laços africanos em vivências femininas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-14012014-122129/.

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O presente trabalho propôs-se a investigar a escritura literária de autoria feminina nas obras Ventos do Apocalipse (2006), de Paulina Chiziane, e Ponciá Vicêncio, de Conceição Evaristo, no sentido de estabelecer um diálogo com o espaço da experiência perceptiva e cultural geradora de imagens libertárias da consciência feminina nos contextos moçambicano e brasileiro. A opção por pesquisar obras produzidas em espaços sociais e políticos distintos reflete a preocupação em demonstrar que as mulheres continuam buscando formas de se fazerem ouvir, no campo do literário, criando discursos e estratég

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Ribeiro, Célia Margarida da Silva. "Representações da violação na ficção feminina Africana." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2758.

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O presente trabalho propõe-se examinar a violação em diferentes textos, nos contextos do Poscolonialismo e Feminismo, nomeadamente nos livros The Rape of Shavi, de Buchi Emecheta, The Rape of Sita, de Lindsey Collen, e Changes: A Love Story, de Ama Ata Aidoo. Embora os três textos analisem o tema em contextos e profundidades diferentes, os três apresentam a violação como uma metáfora para o encontro colonial. ABSTRACT: This Dissertation aims at examining rape in different texts, in the context of Postcolonialism and Feminism, namely in the books The Rape of Shavi, By Buchi Emecheta, The Rape

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Hitchcott, Nicola Marie. "The unspoken self : feminism and cultural identity in African women's writing in French." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321098.

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Perez, Jeannina. "Matrilineal memories : revisionist histories in three contemporary Afro-American women's novels." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1127.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English

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Istomina, Julia. "Property, Mobility, and Epistemology in U.S. Women of Color Detective Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429191876.

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Drame, Siacka. "Trois exemples du personnage feminin dans le roman francophone d’Afrique subsaharenne: salimata, perpetue et laokole." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13276.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of Modern Languages<br>Claire L. Dehon<br>Francophone Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa is an important indicator of the extent of the awakening by African people to their realities that link them to the past and the present. Novels of prominence written from the sixties to the nineties demonstrate how well their authors appreciate the characteristics of their societies. In this respect, some African writers such as Mongo Beti, Regina Yaou and Emmanuel Dongala in their respective works The Suns of Independence by Ahmadou Kourouma, Perpétua and the Habit of Unhappi

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Oshindoro, Michael Eniola. "Myth Is Its Own Undoing: Approaching Gender Equity Through Gender Dialogue In Ayọbami Adebayọ’s Stay With Me (2017) And Lọla Shonẹyin’s The Secret Lives Of Baba Sẹgi’s Wives (2010)". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586457496960154.

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Weber-Fève, Stacey A. "There's no place like home homemaking, making home, and femininity in contemporary women's filmmaking and the literature of the Métropol and the Maghreb /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1148746370.

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Vernon, Allie Harrison. "Does Money Indeed Buy Happiness? “The Forms of Capital” in Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/english_theses/7.

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Looking primarily at two critically acclaimed texts that concern themselves with American citizenship—F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Stephanie Powell Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us—I analyze the claims made about citizenship identities, rights, and consequential access to said rights. I ask, how do these narratives about citizenship sustain, create, or re-envision American myth? Similarly, how do the narratives interact with the dominant culture at large? Do any of these texts achieve oppositional value, and/or modify the complex hegemonic structure? I use Pierre Bourdieu’s “Th

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Sakkos, Tiina. "Existentialism and feminism in Kezilahabi`s novel Kichwamaji." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-94160.

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Makala hii inachambua riwaya ya pili ya mwandishi maarufu wa Kiswahili, Euphrase Kezilahabi (*1944) iitwayo Kichwamaji (1974). Inajaribu kuzingatia mikondo miwili ya uchambuzi yaani inajadili kwa ufupi nadharia ipi au mkondo upi wa kimawazo unafaa zaidi katika kuichambua riwaya hiyo: udhanaishi au ufeministi. Je, inawezekana kuunganisha yote mawili?<br>In this essay, I would like to analyse the novel Kichwamaji (‘Empty-head’; 1974) by the well-known Tanzanian writer Euphrase Kezilahabi against the background of two philosophical theories: existentialism and feminism. I will first discuss exist

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Steenkamp, Lize-Maree. "Place, space and patriarchal femininities in selected contemporary novels by African women writers." University of the Western Cape, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6639.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>In much feminist literature, women’s spaces are analysed as constructive and supportive sites that may offer respite from patriarchy. However, women’s spaces are not inherently emancipatory. Through the socio-spatial dispersal of patriarchal power, places and spaces varying in scale – nations, cities, rural towns, private-public places and the home – can construct women who further the interests of men. Specifically, homosocial spaces, spaces where women interact with other women, can produce femininities that oppress other women by actively advancing patriarchal c

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Munoz, Cabrera Patricia. "Journeying: narratives of female empowerment in Gayl Jones's and Toni Morrison's ficton." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210259.

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This dissertation discusses Gayl Jones’s and Toni Morrison’s characterisation of black women’s journeying towards empowered subjectivity and agency. <p><p>Through comparative analysis of eight fictional works, I explore the writers’ idea of female freedom and emancipation, the structures of power affecting the transition from oppressed towards liberated subject positions, and the literary techniques through which the authors facilitate these seminal trajectories.<p><p>My research addresses a corpus comprised of three novels and one book-long poem by Gayl Jones, as well as four novels by Toni M

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Santos, Waltecy Alves dos. "A voz feminina na literatura de ascendência africana: hibridismo de mitos e ritos nos romances Niketche de Paulina Chiziane e A cor púrpura de Alice Walker." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14887.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:59:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Waltecy Alves dos Santos.pdf: 1242912 bytes, checksum: 264968caf613c59a1bc3e5eb4a233a18 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-20<br>This paper associates Literary Studies to Cultural Studies with the intention of comparing literatures that show itself as historically constituted subjects. In this sense, The female voice in literature of African ascendency: hybridism of myths and rites in the novels Niketche of Paulina Chiziane and The Color Purple of Alice Walker is a study that suggest literary-cultural reflection

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Pereira, Érica Antunes. "De missangas e catanas: a contrução social do sujeito feminino em poemas angolanos, cabo-verdianos, moçambicanos e são-tomenses." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-04012011-101230/.

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As angolanas Alda Lara e Paula Tavares, a cabo-verdiana Vera Duarte, a moçambicana Noémia de Sousa e as são-tomenses Alda Espírito Santo e Conceição Lima são as escritoras que melhor representam a poesia de autoria feminina em seus respectivos países e, embora pertençam a contextos socioeconômicos e culturais bastante diferentes, suas obras se aproximam tanto pela abordagem temática, quanto pela existência de um projeto de construção social do sujeito feminino. Assim, embasamo-nos, teoricamente, nos estudos em especial os de Michel de Certeau (2005) e Maria Odila da Silva Leite Dias (1992; 19

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Kempen, Laura Charlotte. "Words of deliverance : the (re)constitution of the disenfranchised feminine subject in selected works of West African and Latin American women writers /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6694.

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Alva, Rodrigo Carvalho. "Zora Neale Hurston & Their Eyes Were Watching God: a construção de uma identidade afro-americana feminina e a tradução para o português do Brasil." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2007. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=462.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>A presente dissertação possui dois objetivos principais. O primeiro, presente na parte I, é analisar a construção identitária feminina da personagem principal da obra Their Eyes Were Watching God, de Zora Neale Hurston. Sendo assim, a primeira parte desta dissertação é composta de quatro capítulos, sendo que ao longo dos três primeiros, antes da discussão propriamente dita, o trabalho busca aproximar o leitor da discussão. Para isso, os três capítulos iniciais têm o intuito de deixar o leitor familiarizado primeiro com a autora, de

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Teotônio, Rafaella Cristina Alves. "Por uma modernidade própria: o transcultural nas obras Hibisco roxo, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, e O Sétimo Juramento, de Paulina Chiziane." Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2013. http://tede.bc.uepb.edu.br/tede/jspui/handle/tede/1898.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T12:21:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Rafaella Cristina Alves Teotonio.pdf: 1120064 bytes, checksum: 8610114c507104938d9a457fd3e71e63 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-19<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>In recent times, the African literature starts to shift from its previous nationalist function as to conceive modernity. The search for what Édouard Glissant (2005) discusses concerning a specific modernity is observed. This literature, when understanding how consuming is the attempt to conquer an identity prope

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Wagner, Madison. "La modernité tunisienne dévoilée : une étude autour de la femme célibataire." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1368.

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This thesis explains recent accounts of discrimination and cutbacks in reproductive health spaces in Tunisia. Complicating dominant analyses, which attribute these events to the post-revolution political atmosphere which has allowed the proliferation of islamic extremism, I interpret these instances as a manifestation of a deeply rooted stigma against sexually active single women. I trace this stigma’s inception to the contradictory way that Habib Bourguiba conceptualized modernity after independence, and the responsibility he assigned to Tunisian women to embody that modernity. This responsib

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